Police Boss deploys Personnel to ensure crime free Easter celebration

The Inspector-General of Police, IGP in Nigeria,  Usman Alkali, has ordered all the Commissioners of Police, CPs and their supervising Assistant Inspectors-General of Police, AIGs to ensure adequate deployment of police personnel, and operational assets to areas of security interest within their respective areas of responsibility to ensure crime free Easter celebrations.

The order came in a statement signed by the Acting Force Public Relation officer Cheif Supretendent of Police CSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi.

The IGP equally ordered that supervising officers should ensure confidence-boosting, proactive, and high visibility patrols are carried out along the highways, motor parks, train stations, airports, worship centres, recreation centres, banks, and other financial institutions.

While taking adequate measures to provide a peaceful, crime-free, and enabling environment for religious, cultural and other socio-economic activities to thrive.

The statement also contain that  the Commissioners of Police and their supervising AIGs have been directed to ensure proper supervision of the men assigned for these assignments.

The Police chief stated that they must be professional and courteous to law-abiding citizens but firm and ruthless to criminal elements who might want to take the advantage of the festive period to perpetrate any criminal acts.

Marching Orders

The IGP Monitoring Unit and X-Squad have been given marching orders to monitor and police activities of police officers policing the highways to ensure respect for the rights of citizens and operational conformity with the Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) and Rules of Engagement (RoE) of the Force.

The IGP felicitates with Nigerians, and the Christian community in particular, on the commemoration of the crucifixion, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

He appreciates the citizenry for their support and calls on them to continue to cooperate with the Nigeria Police and other security agencies by providing timely information that would help in the prevention and detection of crime.

Confidence Okwuchi